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Head
The foundation upon which Prince’s racial, sexual, and personal preoccupations of the next decade were built.
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Hard to Get
Prince’s most conventional rocker this side of “Bambi,” with a swaggering rhythm guitar riff, honky tonk piano, and either Dez or Prince playing with a slide (!).
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It’s Gonna Be Lonely
On an album that arguably set the mold for who Prince was as an artist, “It’s Gonna Be Lonely” feels like the most “Prince” of all.
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Still Waiting
Heartbreak is the bread and butter of country and soul music alike; Prince employs these well-worn tropes with lines so note-perfect they seem almost timeless.
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Bambi
“Bambi” was the heaviest thing Prince had recorded, and would remain so until his scrapped album The Undertaker–which just happened to feature an even heavier version.
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When We’re Dancing Close and Slow
“Close and Slow” owes as much of its ambience to folk-infused 1970s soft rock as to any kind of R&B; in particular, it’s another early signal of Prince’s artistic debt to Joni Mitchell.